That’s not very surprising in so far that Sotomayor seems to be the perfect judge from Obama’s perspective. She is a woman, from a minority, she is left-wing, and she believes that judges have the responsibility to make law. That’s exactly what he wants, of course: an activist judge.

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You know, if she doesn’t think we have a right to defend ourselves, or that this right was handed out by the Founding Fathers from the beginning, I wonder how she will explain that to the many people who have lost family and friends due to the horribly high crime rate in Puerto Rico? How many of those crimes could have been prevented by an act of self-defense with a handgun? (And no, la policia won’t cut it. Never has, never will.)

Alexander Hamilton: The interpretation of the law is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution, is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.

President Obama has threatened to nominate liberal judicial activists who will indulge their left-wing policy preferences instead of neutrally applying the law. In selecting Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his Supreme Court nominee, President Obama has carried out his threat.

Judge Sotomayor will allow her feelings and personal politics to stand in the way of basic fairness. In a recent case, Ricci v. DeStefano, Sotomayor sided with a city that used racially discriminatory practices to deny promotions to firefighters. The per curiam opinion Sotomayor joined went so far out of its way to bury the firefighters’ important claims of unfair treatment that her colleague, Judge Jose Cabranes, a Clinton appointee, chastised her.

According to Judge Cabranes, Sotomayor’s opinion “contains no reference whatsoever to the constitutional claims at the core of this case” and its “perfunctory disposition rests uneasily with the weighty issues presented by this appeal.” Even the liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen expressed disappointment with the case, stating, “Ricci is not just a legal case but a man who has been deprived of the pursuit of happiness on account of race.”

Sotomayor’s terrible decision in Ricci is under review by the Supreme Court and an opinion is expected by the end of June.

Sotomayor readily admits that she applies her feelings and personal politics when deciding cases. In a 2002 speech at Berkeley, she stated that she believes it is appropriate for a judge to consider their “experiences as women and people of color,” which she believes should “affect our decisions.” She went on to say in that same speech “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” She reiterated her commitment to that lawless judicial philosophy at Duke Law School in 2005 when she stated that the “Court of Appeals is where policy is made.”

THE SUPREME COURT IS NO PLACE TO EXPRESS PERSONAL FEELINGS NOR IS IT A PLACE TO PRACTICE RACIST POLITICS — THE JOB OF A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IS TO INTERPRTET THE LAW OF THE LAND — FULL STOP!!!

SOTOMAYOR IS THE WRONG CHOICE!!!

The poor quality of Sotomayor’s decisions is reflected in her terrible record of reversals by the Supreme Court.

Sotomayor is a favorite of far left special interest groups. In addition to her record as a hard left judicial activist, Sotomayor has been recommended for the Supreme Court by Nan Aron of the very liberal Alliance for Justice, who stated in a 2004 memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Sotomayor had “been through an initial vetting and fit into the criteria that we believe should be the standard for any Supreme Court justice.”